HappyPagan:

Maybe if they stopped following 'Christ', they'd live much better lives.

Christ will continue to be your own headache as long as you make Him your enemy.
BTW why don't you just give up already on your frustration and get a Life in Christ; He's still in your conscience despite your struggles in getting Him off your mind, that's why you still border when you see or hear the name JESUS CHRIST.

I doubt if the prosperity gospel selling 'men of God' in Nigeria would repent. The ones I pity are their followers because most of them aren't really following Christ for the sake of His Kingdom but for their material gains.

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judedwriter:


Acts 2! The early church received the Holy Spirit baptism and spoke in tongues as evidence.

Hmmn, you people make a mockery of Christianity because you have refused to allow the Holy Spirit minister to you when you study the Bible or you've even refused to study your Bible at all.
What happened in Acts 2 was a significant event which marked the beginning of the New Testament - the coming of the indwelling Holy Spirit. Verse 4 says they were filled (NOT BAPTIZED) and they spoke in other languages as enabled by the Spirit. The languages they spoke were well understood by the people (foreigners) around them, they didn't speak gibberish like what we hear people utter nowadays in the name of "speaking in tongues".
Everything that happened that day was significant (1 Corinthians 14:22) and doesn't mean anyone who receives the Holy Spirit MUST act likewise afterwards. The gift of speaking in tongues like other spiritual gifts is not for everyone (1 Corinthians 12:10). Speaking in spiritual language (which no one but the Spirit understands) shouldn't be done in a congregation (1 Corinthians 14:2) but speaking in other known languages can be done in a gathering but one at a time and there must be an interpreter (1 Corinthians 14:27,28), NOT THE TYPE OF SENSELESS CONFUSION THAT WE SEE IN TODAY'S CHURCHES.

Ngasky:

are you confirming that christianity is not religion?
All my life i thought you were following divine religion but your statement just say otherwise. No wonder every crime is condoled in Christianity.
In Islam a crime is a crime no matter who is committing it. There is no repelling or modification of the divine laws unlike the other religion that modify every single century or every decade as the situation is now

Oh! maybe you're hearing this for the first time, CHRISTIANITY ISN'T A RELIGION BUT A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR CREATOR AND LORD. This is why the real Christian faith will remain forever while all religions that claim to worship the LORD God will vanish with time

Olivegreen:
You know what....come at me! I'm a devout christian and I will prove to your ignorant ass that homosexuality is not a sin but a subject that has been misunderstood for centuries.

Wow! This is more serious than I thought. Oya educate my "ignorant ass" about homosexuality and how God supports it in His Word

That means black South Africans are cursed because that passage is a curse to rebellious Old Testament Israel

Olivegreen:
You're missing the point!!!
Being gay is not just about gay sex just as love is not just about sex.
You just quote the Bible from beginning to end but you can't interprete it with wisdom.
I don't care how you have sex with your wife or husband ( by the way are you male or female?) To me, as long as you both love each other, you both can use whatever positions or methods to give yourselves pleasure during sex.

Some people just like acting blind and intentionally ignore the main point of certain issues. Sex is not the main point of the lgbtq+ community. The main point is that love is love regardless of one's gender. We fall in love with other people's souls and not their body.
My body was given to me so it should not define me but my soul is who I am therefore, it defines me.
If my soul loves the soul of another female then how is that wrong? I love her personality and not just her body.

Please let us stop this unreasonable spread of hate and intolerance.

Love is love.

If you really mean what you just typed up there, then surely you're not a genuine Christian, maybe a nominal one. Your own interpretation of love is worldly and satanically disgusting not from the Bible.

Janosky:


Ephesians 1:3
" Blessed be the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ,"
Compare John20:17

*** John 17:18,21
18 n As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
21 that they may all be one, just as
you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that
they also may be in us, so that the world
may believe that you have sent me "

According to bingbagbo's wacky theology, the Father , his disciples and Jesus is one God.

Seun, pls kindly foot the bill for bingbagbo's mental health evaluation.
Gbagbo needs to consult a Shrink URGENTLY.

If you were someone who cared about the TRUTH, you would be humble enough to let the Holy Spirit illuminate your heart on this concept of trinity of God that has richly blessed millions of true followers of Christ worldwide instead of coming online to insult people who hold a view you have refused to understand.
Jesus Christ is the Everlasting Father in ESSENCE and the Son in PERSON (revealed to humanity) - Isaiah 9:6

Ngasky:

What a fool are you. Did you know that there are certain women that don't mensturate and they are within the menstruation years?
I am personally married to a woman that mensturate only once a year. Sometimes for more than a year she will not mensturate even once.
The verse is a specific instruction on divorcees waiting period before remarrying again.
No two women can have the same ovulation pattern. The monthly hypothesis is just a majority assumption as there are some that had never mensturate in their lifetime. Do better research with your insinuations

Religion is such a bondage my friend. Christ has freed humanity from that grip of religion and those who care about the TRUTH are living in complete freedom. Man was created a rational being, capable of relationship with his Creator. But such Creator-creation relationship is only possible through spiritual means. This is what Christ brought back to humanity. Accept Him, invite His Spirit and live.

mployer:


You didn't get his message. Prosperity is essential part of Christianity.

How is prosperity an ESSENTIAL part of Christianity when Christ didn't preach nor asked His desciples to preach about it?

judedwriter:


Yes. The evidence that you are baptised in the Holy Spirit is the ability to speak or pray in tongues.

THE evidence or AN evidence, do you realize speaking in tongues is a gift just like any other? What makes you think it's a must to speak in tongues to show you're baptized in the Holy Spirit?

This "speaking in tongues" of a thing has been abused today. A particular "fire prayer" branded church actually teach that it's a must to speak in tongue to show you're baptised in the Holy Ghost. How true is that?

OLAADEGBU:

Can anyone deny this is true? (Remember: This meme does not say this is the only message of the Qu'ran, nor does it say that all Muslims are terrorists. It says these are the verses from the Qur'an that inspire terrorists, and that is undeniably true.)

https://www.facebook.com/AskDrBrown/ 5 June 2017 ·

Honestly, without any sense of bigotry, I have been thinking of that too. I've really wanted to study the Quran to find out myself but I haven't got the chance. I'd really want a Muslim scholar explain those passages

Jesus always made a claim that the Jews could not misinterpret when He called God “My Father" (ho pater mou). Not "our Father", a claim to a peculiar relation to the Father. His claim was to a unique relationship with God as His Father. Just as a human father’s son must be fully human, God’s Son must be fully God. All that the Father is, the Son is. (Josh McDowell)

Na dem!
How does this move one closer to God? Genuine Christianity is not all about money.

CCCAddict:
If Atheism works for you, very well.

If Islam works for you, very well.

If Christianity works for you, very well.

If African Traditional Religion works for you, very well.

Do what works for you!

This is exactly what the devil wants and it's exactly what most people of this age are doing - relativism.
We humans by our conscience know there must be a WAY of truth despite the numerous religious and agnostic practices today. That WAY is obviously not a religion, considering what religion has become today.
My friend, the only WAY to God, our Creator and Sustainer is CHRIST. Don't let the devil deceive you that ANYWAY will work. You want LIFE here and eternity, our Creator had given It through His Son (human revelation of Himself) Jesus Christ.

I can relate well with your testimony OP.
I've also had a recurring and mysterious sickness for over 15yrs. Gone to many prayer mountains and hospitals, yet no solution. Frustration made me stop going to churches and started studying the WORD on my own and reading christian inspirational books, my spiriual life has dramatically changed since then. I changed my worries and focus from the sickness to getting closer to God every passing day.
I've learnt to please God through FAITH, even if I'm not yet experiencing what I prayed for. Anytime I feel any symptom of the recurring sickness, I start praising and thanking God for healing me by the stripes of Jesus Christ and then watch the symptom disappear just like it comes.
Experiencing victory over Sin, sickness, self and satanic attack have been miraculous since I decided to give up everything to follow Christ wholeheartedly. Indeed anyone can move mountains with FAITH in Christ's finished work on the cross.

According to prosperity gospel merchants, the cross is no longer the symbol for the Christian faith; it's now private jets and fat bank accounts. As long as you keep "sowing seeds", God must bless you with material wealth and you'll be "dangerously rich".

For me, my cross is forgoing my own personal ambition to follow Christ wholeheartedly.

Plus he doesn't deceive with lies, he twists the truth perfectly to deceive humans into rebellion against the Almighty God - he did it in the beginning and he's still doing it.
Like burger, he hides the most vicious falsehood within a body of truths, feeds people with it as religion and knowledge to keep them away from the Light and destroy them forever

Satanic pastors and church owners everywhere, especially in Nigeria have neglected this. They're preoccupied with preaching what people want to hear - prosperity, financial blessing, economic comfort, healing, miracles, deliverance etc. Because no one wants to hear the TRUTH about God's plan of victory and redemption from Sin and it's effects, judgment of the sinful world and coming reign of Christ, pastors now only SELL other gospels that are on high demand. They've all relegated the gospel of Christ's Kingdom to the background. THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST THE REAL CHURCH OF CHRIST.

When an acclaimed Christian keeps acquiring knowledge contrary to God's will, he/she will definitely submit to the doctrine of demons who disguise as Christian evangelicals.
So much of liberalism and tolerance being propagated by the world are now gaining grounds in the body of Christ. But tolerance shouldn't make us compromise our faith and turn a blind eye to the TRUTH - that Jesus Christ is the only Way to reconciliation with God, no other way.

God doesn’t answer curses, He answers prayers according to His will. It's satan who capitalises on curses to achieve his aim. God will judge every evildoer His own way NOT the way we usually expect.

Jesus was/is against laying curses - Matthew 5:44, Romans 12:14. Oyedepo should have blessed those who did the evil act while praying for God's righteous judgement upon them - that's the way of Christ.

NB: The imprecatory Psalms were submitted to God's will not ultimately to the psalmists' wishes even though they wished great evil upon their adversaries. But Christ has shed light on how we should conduct ourselves and our how our heart and responses should be to those who hurt and persecute us.

Even though I don't subscribe to IPOB's mode of operation, I just love what they did - they've sent a very clear message that's been in the heart of all right thinking Nigerians to these heartless politicians

Unfortunately most pastors and church runners are preaching prosperity, deliverance, miracles and healing but they have relegated the Kingdom gospel to the background.

Satan may still have a lot of influence in the world today through his human agents but the ultimate authority belongs to God. Nothing in this world happens without God's permission, even the bad things. Everything ĺboth good and evil) works according to God's plan.

Macdove02:
Love is all that matters

The love in our world, especially today, is no where near or comparable with the Love of God expressed in Christ.
A genuine Christian knows he/she is bound by the covenant of Christ's Love and should be lead by the Spirit in choosing a life partner NOT by human love that exists only in the realm of the soul. Such Christian, whose real/first love is Christ, can never be joined with someone whose heart isn't owned by Christ.
A real Christian who is first and foremost concerned about a growing relationship with Christ above anything else can't think of being joined together in matrimony to non-believer - that would be disastrous to his/her spiritual life and that will definitely lead to a physical life of agony and lots of "patching-up".

True!
The real ecclesias is urgently needed, especially in Nigeria.

The Nicolaitans are still very much around, especially in Nigerian churches. They preach pursuit of material wealth and use Christ to cover their idolatry. They are very tolerant on false doctrines, legal corruption and immorality - no wonder politicians, immoral artists, prostitutes, fraudsters and corrupt business men/women flood their congregations and feel very comfortable there, even becoming church leaders.

HoluwaLoniGlory:

This is the last time I will reply you
my focus is Christ but dominion is my inheritance in Christ.

Dominion in Christ doesn't mean acquiring material wealth by taking some "special steps" in faith eg sowing seeds. Dominion in Christ is first and foremost walking in victory over Sin, Satan, Self and Sickness because Christ had overcome them all. The Christian faith doesn't guarantee material wealth but peace in all circumstances as you depend on God. You can't bulldoze God into blessing you with material wealth if that's not His will for you. God blesses those He wants to bless with money and material possessions according to His sovereignty, will and purpose. Just follow Christ with all your heart and soul and let His will be done in your life. Give the best of what you are and what you have to His purpose, be it money, time, talent, etc.
Pursuing material wealth in guise of dominion in Christ will only lead you into idolatry. If God wants you to be wealthy, no one can stop you from being wealthy as long as you're following Christ in truth and in spirit everyday. You don't need to do anything special to "attract" wealth, just follow Him with all your heart and soul. Trying hard to get rich in the name of Christ will open the door of your heart to the god of this world - satan into enticing you to taking some unchristlike actions that will lead you astray.
Lastly, remember the symbol of the Christian Faith is a cross NOT a private jet nor 666 (King Solomon's number). Most people who truly follow Christ would likely find things difficult on this side of existence, especially financially. I'm not saying a true follower of Christ can never be rich, but it'll be difficult in this world controlled by satan.

HoluwaLoniGlory:



my brother that is your choice someone can limit God in his/her life. if Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, job, David, Solomon, etc are rich and wealthy and blessed I must be rich and wealthy and blessed also .

in the prophetic ministry there are something God cannot show you or reveal to you because you are not capable to do those this for example God want to build a prayer ground in a city God can't tell you that because you will limit him financially

May God deliver you from this doctrine of mammon. If you really want to follow Christ in truth and in spirit, you won't live your life pursuing wealth and material possessions.

CodeTemplar:
If you claim it was under old testament where exactly was it discontinued in the new testament?


You know you are twisting scriptures even without pointing it out to you.


2 Peter 1:20 clearly tells us no scripture or prophecy is of any private interpretation so that trash about Jesus addressing the Pharisees alone won't fly here.
Even if you remain stubborn in the face of scriptural back up then it simply means all the words of Jesus are contextual according the particular person(s) He was addressing. That will be a disastrous foundation for you to build your points upon.

2 Peter 1 : 20 - knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation
You twisted this passage my friend
Pray that God gives you understanding, you need it urgently. Plus you should try to know the meaning of prophecy, compare with what Jesus said in Matthew 23v23 and see who is twisting the Bible